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Apr 26, 2011

V is for View - Blogger Tip

Looking for a new way to view blogs?

There's one app on the iPad that I love - Flipboard. What it does is display your blogs in a magazine fashion, so you see snippets of stories and such. Did you know that there are different ways to view people's blogs from your computer?

If you go to the url in the address bar right now (says http://www.clancytales.blogspot.com/) and add to it:

view

You'll probably get the sidebar view of this blog, down the sidebar of this blog is a list of all the previous blogs. Now at the top of the page towards the right side, there's a blue button that probably says Sidebar. You can click on that and choose the other layout designs as well. I quite like Snapshot for when you want to try to find a previous post.

Does this work on your blog? If you have blogger or blogspot blog, you need to go into the Settings menu (from your dashboard). Your blog must be public, not one that people need to sign into to see. In Settings, choose Site Feed, and make sure your 'Allow Blog Feeds' button is either 'Full' (that's what I have selected) or 'Jump Break'. Also in Setting, choose Formatting and where it says 'Enable Dynamic Views', choose Yes.

That's all you have to do (most are set this way by default anyway, so you might not have to tamper at all). Then view your blog and type the word 'view' at the end of the url. I just think it's cool.

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Brisbane author Charmaine Clancy loves to create characters for mystery, fantasy and adventure. All her stories are fictional, except maybe MY ZOMBIE DOG (some say to this day you can hear her dog softly moan the plea 'braaaains').

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NOVELS AND STATUS:

DOGNAPPED? A Dog Show Detective Mystery

*Available in Kindle! Paperback coming soon.

My Zombie Dog*Available in Kindle, Kobo and paperback.

Undead Kev

Following on from Zane's adventures in My Zombie Dog, now Kev is infected! To make matters worse, he is kidnapped by invisible stealth-monkeys and taken to a secret government laboratory. How will the boys get themselves out of this one?*WIP - Final edits - due for release in Oct.

The Warracknabeal Kids - Young scallywag and local copper's son living in rural Victoria in the 30's discovers a murder and tries to uncover the killer.*WIP - Editing for submission to publishers.

The Costume Maker - Three teens travel to another world filled with evil fairies, superstitious gypsies and mysterious natives, oh, and dragons.*Final Edit

Digging Up Death - Dusty Fields is a palaeontologist student who has the gift of seeing how creatures died when she touches their remains.*Finished First Draft

The Pirate Girl - Young Grace enlists the help of a stuffy Duke and a band of Pirates to rescue her father from England's Tower.*WIP First Draft

Egyptian curses, resurrection and dating for the 'modern' teenage goddess.